Heritage quits joint electoral headquarters
The opposition Heritage party will no longer participate in the work of the inter-party headquarters for public oversight of the elections, the party's vice-chairman Ruben Hakobyan told A1+.
On April 4, at the central office of the Political Scientists Union, four political forces - the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), Armenian Revolutionary Federation- Dashnaktsutyun, Armenian National Congress (HAK) and Heritage Party signed a declaration on forming inter-party electoral headquarters to fight against electoral fraud. However, Heritage later demanded that the top leaders of the four political forces also sign the statement and explicitly renounce vote buying.
Today the party did not participate in the recurrent sitting of the joint electoral headquarters.
Talking to A1+, Ruben Hakobyan accounted their withdrawal for the other three forces' failure to meet his party's demands.
"We demanded that the first persons of the four political forces also sign the statement that would determine the main functions of the oversight headquarters and control mechanisms. However, our demand was ignored and now we announce that we shall not participate in the activities of the headquarters since we find that it has a formal nature," said the Heritage party official.
